[chirp_users] Chirp update
I have A uv5r programmed thru chirp and need to program a new bf8hp with same channels. They both have different software. Can I use the same chirp software or do I Need to update to the new chirp update . Both came from beofeng tech along with their cable Sent from my iPad
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Mark gingrich.ms@gmail.com wrote:
I have A uv5r programmed thru chirp and need to program a new bf8hp with same channels. They both have different software. Can I use the same chirp software or do I Need to update to the new chirp update . Both came from beofeng tech along with their cable
You can probably use the same software, but my recommendation would be to update it. If you want a more specific answer, you can look through the changelog to see if there have been any changes to the BF8HP or UV5R drivers since you downloaded Chirp: http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/repository/revisions The easy thing to do is to just update it.
Once you have the latest version, download from both radios and copy/paste the channels from one to the other. Then upload to the one you pasted channels to.
Tom
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Mark gingrich.ms@gmail.com wrote:
I have A uv5r programmed thru chirp and need to program a new bf8hp with same channels. They both have different software. Can I use the same chirp software or do I Need to update to the new chirp update . Both came from beofeng tech along with their cable
The Baofeng UV-5R (and its many variants of radios with 2 power levels) and the BF-F8HP (and its many variants with 3 power levels) are treated like separate radio models. You cannot download the image from one model and directly upload it into another model.
There are several ways that you can get the channels from one radio transferred to the other. The quick and dirty method is to download from both into CHIRP at the same time. This will create 2 tabs, one for each radio. Then you can simply copy and paste the channels between tabs.
Some suggest exporting the "source" radio to a CSV file and then import the saved CSV file into a tab from the "destination" radio. The result is the same as cut and paste.
What I do is to "import" the image from my "master" radio into the tab from the radio that I want to program. This method is more thorough than copy and past or export/import a CSV file. A guide for how to do it is on the Baofeng Tech website.
https://baofengtech.com/CHIRPImport
Once you have the channels transferred, you will still have to go through the global settings menus and edit these settings separately. You will only have to do this once because you will be keeping separate images for each radio.
Jim KC9HI
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